That’s a wrap – thank you for reading the Need to Know blog today. These were some of the main stories:

• Dutton to maintain ‘graceful silence’ during politics exit: Former opposition leader Peter Dutton has spoken for the first time since his election defeat.

• Nationals MP calls for Littleproud to stand down ‘immediately’: Queensland Nationals MP Colin Boyce called on David Littleproud to stand down as party leader, venting frustration at the hierarchy’s refusal to accept blame for the election wipeout.

• Top NSW cop quits force after headline-plagued tenure: The boss of Australia’s biggest police outfit is quitting her post, throwing an already under-fire police force into further disarray.

• Wilson hints at economic role in Coalition; backs nuclear power: Liberal Goldstein candidate Tim Wilson suggests he would like an economic shadow ministry role in the Coalition and supports nuclear power.

• Ryan ahead in Kooyong by 0.5pc: Twelve seats are still too close to call, but Labor has pulled ahead in four of them.

• Parliament was ‘bloody awful’, ‘miserable’: Former Griffith MP Max Chandler-Mather says he is happy he does not have to spend more time in the House of Representatives because it is a “bloody awful” workplace.